- Completed online application
- Application essays: Include all essays in a single document, clearly numbered. Individual essays should not exceed 400 words.
1. Describe your academic and personal goals and how these may be further achieved by studying at Penn during the summer. Feel free to discuss the particular program to which you are applying as well as other aspects of studying at Penn during the summer.
2. Select a few of your non-academic or extracurricular experiences and explain how these activities supplement your academic and personal growth.
3. Non-native English speakers only: Describe your English educational background and experience.
- High school transcripts (official or unofficial transcripts are accepted): Upload a copy of high school transcripts into the online application. The transcript must include one full academic year of grades. If your transcript does not include one year of grades, you may upload a mid-term or interim report card, or middle or junior high school transcripts in addition. If you choose to mail or email a copy of your transcripts, please upload a document into the application system stating your materials have been sent by mail or email.
- One letter of recommendation: This letter may be submitted electronically through the application system (preferred), or mailed or emailed to our office. For electronic submissions through the application system, just enter the name and email address of the recommendation providers into the system and our division will contact them with submission instructions.
- Non-native English speakers must submit a test score to verify English language proficiency unless they attend an English-medium school, in which case this requirement is waived. For the Pre-College Programs, a student must attend an English-medium school for 2+ years by the time of enrollment for the requirement to be waived.
If scores are required, a TOEFL, IELTS, Duolingo English Test (DET), PSAT, SAT, or ACT score is accepted. Copies of score reports may be uploaded to the application system or emailed to [email protected] as attachments. The minimum TOEFL scores required for admissions consideration are 100 (iBT), 250 (CBT), or 600 (PBT). The IELTS score required for admissions consideration is a 7. The minimum Duolingo English Test (DET) score required for admission is 120.
- Standardized test scores are not required for application.
- Non-refundable application fee of $75.

Deadline

Applications for summer 2024 open on December 1, 2023.
February 15 - Deadline to apply to Summer Academies.
April 1 - April 15 - Application Decision Release Window.